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f  House  Bill  No.  1.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES.— February  2,  1863.— Read 
first  and  second  times,  made  special  order  for  to-morrow,  morning 
hour,  February  3,  1863,  and  from  day  to  day  until  concluded,  and 
ordered  to  be  printed. 

[  By  Mr.  Kenner,  from  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means.] 


To  be  entitled  an  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  support  of  the 
Government,  for  the  period  from  February  1,  to  June  30,  1863, 
inclusive,  and  to  supply  deficiencies  arising  prior  thereto. 

1  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  cnazt,  That 

2  there  be  appropriated  and  paid  out  of  any  money  in  th?  treasury, 

3  not  otherwise  appropriated,  the  following  sums  of  money,  and  for 
•i     the  following  purposes,  viz  : 

1  Legislative. — For  compensation    and   mileage    of  members  and 

2  delegates  of  the   House  of    Representatives,    one   hundred   and 

3  seventy-four  thousand  two  hundred  dollars,  ($174,200.) 

4  For   compensation   of  officers,   clerks,  &c,    of  the   House  of 

5  Representatives,  five  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($5,600*) 


6  For  contingent  expenses  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  ten 

7  thousand  dollars,  ($10,000.) 

8  For   compensation  and   mileage    of  members    of  the    Senate, 

0  twenty-nine  thousand  nine  hundred  dollars,  ($29,900.) 

10  For  compensation  of  officers,   clerks,  &c,    of  the    Senate,  six 

11  thousand  dollars,  ($6,000.) 

12  For  contingent  expenses  of  the   Senate,  six   thousand  dollars, 

13  (§6,000.) 

1  Executive. — For  compensation  of  the  President  of  the  Confed- 

2  crate    States,    six     thousand   two     hundred    and    fifty   dollars, 

3  ($6,250.) 

4  For  compensation    of  the    Vice   President  of  the  Confederate 

5  States,  one  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($1,500.) 

6  For  compensation  of  the   private   secretary  and  messenger  of 

7  the  President,  one  thousand  and  seven  dollars  and  thirteen  cents, 

8  (1,007  13.) 

9  For  compensation  of  the  private   secretary  of  the  Vice  Presi- 

10  dent,    seven   hundred   and    fourteen   dollars   and    forty  cents, 

11  ($714  40.) 

12  For  contingent   and   telegraphic   expenses   of  the   Executive 

13  office,  four  thousand  dollars,  ($4,000.) 

1  Treasury  Department. — For  compensation   of  the   Secretary  of 


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2  the  Treasury,  Assistant  Secretary,  Comptroller,  Auditors,  Trea* 

3  surer,  and  Register,  and  clerks,  and  messengers  in   said  depart- 

4  ment,  three  hundred  and  fiity  seven  thousand  eight  hundred  and 

5  ninety-seven  dollars  and  ten  cents,  ($357,897  10.) 

G  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  treasury  depart- 

7  ment,  twenty- one  thousand  eight  hundred  dollars,  ($21,800.) 

8  For    interest   on   the   public    debt,    twenty   million    dollars, 

9  ($20,000,000.) 

10  For  engraving  and  printing   treasury  notes,  bonds  and  certifi- 

1 1  cates  of  stock,  and  for  paper  for  the   same,  three   hundred  and 

12  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($350,000. 

13  For  the  transfer  of  funds  to  foreign  parts,  five  million  dollars, 

14  ($5,000,000.) 

15  For  the  transmission  of  Confederate  States  funds,  two  hundred 

16  thousand  dollars,  ($200,000.) 

1  War  Department. — For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  War, 

2  Assistant  Secretary,  Chief  of  Bureau,    clerks,   messengers,  &c, 

3  in  said  department,  ninety-six  thousand  seven   hundred  and  fifty 

4  dollars,  ($96,750.) 

5  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the   war  department, 
G  fifty-four  thousand  dollars,  ($54,000.) 

1  Quartermasters  Department. — For  the   pay  of    the    army,  one 


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3  hundred  and  nineteen  million  two  hundred  and  seventy  thousand 

3  seven  hundred  and  seventy-one  dollars,  ($119,270}771.) 

4  For  the  transportation  of  troops  and  their  baggage,  of  quarter- 

5  master's  stores,  subsistence,  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  from 

6  place   of  purchase  to  troops  in  the  field,  purchase  of  horses, 

7  mules,  wagons  and  harness,  purchase  of  lumber,  nails,  iron  and 

8  steel  for  erecting  storehouses,  quarters  for  troops  and  other  re- 

9  pairs,  hire  of  teamsters,  laborers,  &c,  forty- seven  million  sevne 

10  hundred  and  eight  thousand  three  hundred  and  eight  dollars, 

11  (§47,708,308.) 

12  For  pay  for  horses  of  non-commissioned  officers   and  privates 

13  killed  in  battle,  under  act  No.  48,  section  7,  and   for  which  pro- 

14  vision  is  to  be  made,  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dol- 

15  lars,  ($125,000.) 

16  For  pay  for  property  pressed  into  the  service  of  the    Confed- 

17  erate  States,    under   appraisement,   said   property   having   been 

18  either  lost  or  applied  to  ,  the   public    service,    one   hundred   and 

19  eighty-seven  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($187,500.) 

20  For  the  sustenance   of  prisoners   of  war,  under  act   No.  181, 

21  section  1,  and  the  hire  of  the   necessary  prisons,  guard  houses ; 

22  &c,  for  the  safe  keeping  of  the  same,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may 

23  be  necessary,  one  million  dollars,  ($1,000,000.) 


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24  For  the  bounty  of  fifty  dollars  to  each  non-commissioned  offi- 

25  cer,  musician  and  private  now  in  the  service  for  three  years  or 

26  for  the  war,  to  be  paid  at  the  expiration  of  the  first  year's  service, 

27  on  the  basis  that  sixty  thousand  men  will  have   to  be  paid,  three 

28  million  dollars,  ($3,000,000.) 

29  For  pay  of  the  officers  on  duty  in  the    offices  of  Adjutant  and 

30  Inspector    General's    Department,   the  Quartermaster  General's 

31  Department,  medical,  engineer,  ordnance  and  subsistence  depart- 

32  ments,  three  hundred  and  twenty. three  thousand  three  hundred 
SPj  and  fifty  dollars,  ($323,350.) 

1  Commissary    Depart?ne7it, — For    the    purchase    of    subsistence 

2  stores  and  commissary  property,  forty-eight  million  six  hundred 

3  and  fifty-six  thousand  five  hundred  dollars,  ($48,658,500.) 

1  Ordnance  Department. — For   the    ordnance    service    in    all   its 

2  branches,     twelve     million     five    hundred     thousand    dollars, 

3  ($12,500,000.) 

4  For  the  purchase  of  pig  and    rolled   iron,    three    million  dollars, 

5  ($3,000,000.) 

6  For   the    purchase    and     manufacture    of    nitre,   four    hundred 

7  thousand  dollars,  ($400,000.) 

1  Engineer  Department. — For  the  engineer  service,  three  million 

%  dollars,  ($3,000,000.) 


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1  Medical  Department. — For  pay  of  private  physicians  employed 

2  by  contract,  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,- ($150,000.) 

3  For  pay  of  nurses  and  cooks,  not  enlisted  or  volunteers,  two 

4  hundred  and  forty  thousand  dollars,  (§240,000.) 

5  For  pay  of  hospital  stewards,  sixty  thousand  dollars,  ($60,000.) 

6  For  pay  of  matrons,  assistant  matrons  and  ward  matrons,  two 

7  hundred  and  forty  thousand  dollars,  ($240,000.) 

8  For  pay   of  ward  masters,   one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 

9  dollars,  ($150,000,) 

10  For    pay    of   hospital    laundresses,   fifty    thousand    dollars, 

11  ($50,000.) 

12  For  medical  and  hospital  supplies,  two  million  five  hundred 

13  thousand  dollars,  ($2,500,000.) 

14  For  the  establishment  and  support  of  military  hospitals,  one 

15  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  ($150,000.) 

1  Navy    Department, — For    compensation    of  the    Secretary    of 

2  the  Navy,  clerks  and  messenger,  twelve  thousand  one  hundred 

3  and  sixty- three  dollars  and  thirty-nine  cents,  ($12,163  39.) 

4  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Navy  Depart- 

5  roent,  ten  thousand  dollars,  ($10,000.) 

6  For  pay  of  the  Navy,  one  million  three  hundred  and  ninety- 

7  nine  thousand  five  hundred  and  seventy-one  dollars  and  twenty- 
6  five  cents,  ($1,399,571  25.) 


9  For  provisions  and  contingencies  in  the  paymasters  depart- 

10  ment,  one  million  three  hundred  and  twenty-one  thousand  six 

1!  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  (§1,321,650.) 

12  For  construction  of  iron-clad  and  other  vessels  in  the  Con- 

13  federate  States,  three  million  dollars,  (§3,000,000.) 

14  For  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  one  million  eight  hundred 

15  and  seventeen  thousand  live  hundred  dollars,  (§1,817,500.) 

16  For  purchase  of  nautical  instruments,  books  and  charts,  fifteen 

17  thousand  dollars,  (§15,000.) 

18  For  equipment  and  repair  of  vessels,  two  hundred  and  fifty 
10  thousand  dollars,  ($250,000.) 

20  For  fuel  for  steamers,  navy  yards  and  stations,  three  hundred 

21  thousand  dollars,  ($300,000.) 

22  For  contingent  enumerated,  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 

23  dollars,  ($250,000.) 

24  For    surgeon's   necessaries,    one    hundred    thousand   dollars, 

25  ($100,000.) 

26  For  support  of  the  marine  corps,  two  hundred  and  sixty-eight 

27  thousand  six  hundred  and  twenty-seven  dollars,  ($268,627.) 

1  State  Department—For  compensation  of  the  Secretary  of  State, 

2  clerks,  messenger  and  laborer,  five  thousand  three  hundred  and 

3  fifty  dollars,  ($5,353.) 


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4  For  salaries  of  consuls  and  commercial  agents.,  ten  thousand 

5  dollars,  ($10,000.) 

6  For  salaries  of  commissioners  and  secretaries,  twenty-three 
'/  thousand  four  hundred  dollars,  (§23,400.) 

8  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  foreign  intercourse, 

9  ten  thousand  dollars,  ($10,000.) 

10  .     For  necessities  and  exigencies  under  laws  already  passed,  or 

11  which  maybe  passed,  or   from   causes  which   now  exist  or  may 

12  hereafter  arise,  and  unforeseen  emergencies,  subject  to  the  re- 
1 1  quisition,  and  under  the  control  of  the  President  of  the  Confede- 
M  rate  States,  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  ($100,000.) 

1  Department  of  Justice. — For  compensation    of   the    Attorney 

2  General,  Assistant  Attorney  General,  clerks  and  messenger,  in- 

3  eluding  pay  of  messenger  prior  to  March  Dili,  1861,  six  thousand 
A  and  six  dollars  and  eighty-five  cents,  (§6,006  85.) 

.3  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Department  of 

6  Justice,  one  thousand  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  ($1,260.) 

7  For  the  salaries  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Printing,  clerk 

8  and  messenger,  two  thousand  and  sixty-two  dollars  and  fifty 

9  cents,  ($2,062  50.) 

1 0  For  compensation  of  commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs  and  Gov- 

11  ernor,  secretary,  judges,  attorney  and  marshal  of  Arizona  Ter- 


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12  ritory,  four  thousand  five  hundred  and  ten  dollars,   ($4,510.) 

13  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  Arizona  Territory, 

14  to  be  expended  by  the  Governor,  four  hundred  and  seventy-eight 

15  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  ($478  50.) 

1G  For  printing,  binding  and  ruling  for  the   several  Executive 

IT  Departments,  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  ($75,000.) 

18  For  printing  and  binding  for  both  Houses  of  Congress,  in- 

19  eluding  the   printing  of  the   laws   and  journals   in  book  form,. 

20  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  ($25,000.) 

21  For  purchase  of  paper  for  the  Executive   Departments  and 

22  Congress,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  ($25,000.) 

23  For  salaries  of  judges,  attorneys  and  marshals,  and  incidental 

24  and  contingent  expenses  of  courts,  twenty-five  thousand  dollars, 

25  ($25,000.) 

2o  For  compensation  of  three  commissioners,  appointed  under  the 

27  sequestration  act,  and  for  clerk  hire   and  contingent  expenses, 

23  five  thousand  three  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars.  ($5,325.) 

1  Pcstoffice  Department. — For    compensation  of   the   Postmaster 

2  General  chiefs  of  bureaux,  clerks,  messengers,  watchmen  and 

3  laborers,  forty-seven   thousand  four  hundred  and  eight  dollars 

4  and  thirty-four  cents,  ($47,408  34.) 

5  For  incidental  and  contingent  expenses  of  the  Postofiice  Dc- 

6  partment.  five  thousand  dollars,  ($5,000.) 

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r         Miscellaneous.— For  rent  of  executive  buildings  and  President's 
2     house,  ten  thousand  dollars,  ($10,000.) 
%         For  compensation  of  agents,  cost  of  materials  and  construct- 

4  ing,  repairing  and  operating  telegraph  lines,  fifty  thousand  dol- 

5  lars,  ($50,000.) 


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